NC-Pres: Despite Palin-fueled GOP surge, Dems still winning voter registration battle

[book_worm]

Voter registration numbers in the past couple of months.

Let's start on August 2, 2008, with the following numbers:

Democrats: 2,669,616
Republican: 1,937,735

And then the week by week additions:

Week Democratic Republican
08/09 3,833 709
08/16 4,354 531
08/23 2,188 275
08/30 3,410 688
09/06 4,851 1,309
09/13 7,307 2,942



Palin will have more of an effect on already-registered evangelical voters, no doubt. But when it comes to this measure of voter intensity -- it's obvious that Democratic energy still outweighs whatever new excitement Palin brought to the table.

Going back to the first week of 2008, the two main parties have added the following number of voters:

Democrats +184,113
Republicans +24,614



Kerry lost North Carolina by 435,000 votes in 2004. Assuming everyone who registered this year votes (for both parties), those new voters can close nearly 37 percent of that deficit. And even with their Palin-fueled surge, Democrats are still far outpacing GOP voter registration efforts.
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[tekisui]

1. I am convinced we in NC will be joining VA on Obama's side

in a couple of weeks.

[book_worm]

2. I haven't given up on NC either, that SUSA poll giving InSane a 20-pt lead was an outliar, I believe

[MadBadger]

4. I believe the PPP and Civitas poll, both who are out of NC I believe

[NYYFan]

3. I'm in NC- finally some numbers I believe

Obama's ground game here has been phenomenal. I've not seen that kind of excitement, or enthusiasm about McCain. The SurveyUSA numbers were totally unbelievable. This is more along the lines of everything I have been observing.